I love pasta with pesto, but sometimes it comes out tasting a little bland so I started making a pasta and pesto flavor enhancer; a delicious, healthy pasta sauce with just four simple ingredients, cherry tomatoes, spinach, olive oil, and salt. The juices from the cherry tomatoes become the base of the sauce, and the spinach adds great flavor….
Eggs in Purgatory
I really like mornings when you get out of bed and already have a dinner plan. On this morning, it was my wife who laid it it all out. The yellow sticky note on the kitchen stated a request for eggs in purgatory, so eggs in hell it would be. Dipping warm, crusty bread in…
Spicy Abruzzi Italian Sauce
After cooking up a bunch of pasta sauces, I decided to fuse together highlights from several of my favorite pasta sauce recipes. I loved the way in which David Rocco uses white wine in his bolognese. I love how both he and Giada use carrots, celery, and onion in their sofrito. And Michael Symon uses…
Italian Classics: Homemade Marinara Sauce
As much as I love a good meat sauce to go with pasta, sometimes you have to take a break and go with a marinara sauce. Most marinara sauces I eat, especially the jar sauces, are too sweet and filled with preservatives. But if you make marinara from scratch, and it’s not too hard to…
